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What Is xAI? Elon Musk Reveals New Startup To Rival OpenAI

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Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies. Will xAI Rival OpenAI?

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Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global is buying a startup that uses neuroscience to boost app usage

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Originally called Dopamine Labs, the company was founded in 2015 to bring some of the same technologies that social media companies like Facebook used to boost engagement to a broader range of applications. “We can use technology to hook people to unhook them from unhealthy behaviors.”

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TuSimple Aims At Self Driving Vehicle Market

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San Diego- and Beijing-based TuSimple , a startup developing autonomous driving technology, says it has received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test autonomous driving vehicles on the road. The company says it has been developing its systems since 2015. The company's co-founder is Xiaodi Hou.

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What I Learned In 2015: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015.

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London and SF have become Impact Tech hubs, with 280% increase in VC in 5 years

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Tech solutions for such pressing issues as the climate crisis and social inequality have seen a 280% increase in global VC investment from 2015 to 2020, while investment in this space more than doubled in both cities over the past five years. times) since 2015, compared to 3.1 times) from 2015 to 2020. billion into U.S.

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Taiwanese reassurances that water shortages won’t hit chipmaking show climate change’s direct threat to tech

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. “Taiwan’s water shortage and its effect on semis is a wake up call for every technology investor, every founder and the entire venture ecosystem. Intel alone used 9 billion gallons of water in 2015). These are businesses like Blue Boson out of the UK, which purports to have developed a quantum-based water treatment technology.

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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

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What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. The BB-8 app-enabled Droid had such a global adoption among kids and adults that it was named the number one Star Wars toy of 2015. Epic Games.